SUEP Hits Social Media
After the PAS was released in December, and in preparation for the real paper, a briefing describing the SUEP offline search has been made public on the CMS and is advertised by the CMSExperiment accounts on social media:
Did you know we have this at MIT?
Recently I was browsing the various news offers at MIT and realized that as a person working at MIT I have access to a number of News subscriptions, I never knew about. Here is a page where you can see…
CMS Week and Spokesperson Election
The first CMS week of 2024 took place during the second week of February, Monday 5th to Friday 9th. It was a rather busy week with a full agenda including a large number of plenary and parallel sessions. CMS is…
FCC Mid Term report hits the News
On February 2, 2024 CERN concluded the midterm review of the FCC. The work is progressing at the required pace to be completed by the end of 2025 as planned. The document of over 700 pages found strong support by…
SubMIT Workshop on Basic Computing Services in the Physics Department
Last Friday, the PPC group hosted the annual SubMIT workshop, a one-day workshop discussing the SubMIT computing cluster which supports the research computing needs of the physics department here at MIT. In the last year, the SubMIT cluster has surpassed…
URA — Council of Presidents Annual Meeting & Policy Forum
The URA is the University Research Association and for what our group most importantly cares about is responsible to run Fermilab. On its web sites it explains that “URA membership is comprised of more than 90 leading research-oriented universities in…
Chronicle of a VIP visit
On January 10-12 our MIT Physics department head, Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty embarked on a special journey to CERN. MIT is making a notable impact at CERN through projects like AMS, Isolde, LHCb, CMS, and theory research. It was a privilege…
How is generative AI transforming education and research?
During our two day workshop, we heard talks on a range of topics illustrating the enormous potential of large language models in transforming the landscape of scientific research and education. We heard from Kavita Bala, the Dean of Cornell Bowers…
Updated LHC Schedule, up to 2041
The CERN director, Fabiola Gianotti, goes through her usual New Years address and presents accomplishments of the last year and the plans for the coming year(s). An amazing talk as every year because there is a lot going on at…
Is there a revolution in AI/ML in STEM research and education?
YES; and if you have not heard it yet, the release of ChatGPT 3.5 has pushed the AI/ML revolution into high gear and it has arrived for real in research and education… To take stock of what is going on…